Hyderabad, May 14 -- The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court on Thursday, May 14, issued summons to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao, suspended IAS officer Arvind Kumar and former HMDA chief engineer BLN Reddy in the Formula E case.

They have been asked to appear before the court on July 31.

The case pertains to the alleged corruption of nearly Rs 55 crore during the previous BRS government's Formula E deal.

Soon after coming to power, the Congress government had claimed that KTR, during his tenure as the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Minister, allowed the transfer of Rs 55 crore from Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) to the Formula E Operations without the approval of...